Ouri Wolfson authored over 140 publications, and holds six patents. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the Springer's Wireless Networks Journal, and is a past editor of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Review. He also served as a guest editor for several issues of the ACM/Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks. He received the best paper award for "Opportunistic Resource Exchange in Inter-vehicle Ad Hoc Networks", at the 2004 Mobile Data Management Conference. He is the 2001 recipient of the UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery during 2001-2003, and participated in numerous conferences as a keynote speaker, program committee chairman or member, tutorial presenter, session chairman, and panelist. Most recently he was the keynote speaker at the Geosensor Networks Workshop, the 5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2005), the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2004), the Second International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2004), and the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001). He was the program committee co-chair of the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2002), the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Commerce (2002) , the Sixth International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2005), and the program committee vice-chair of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006) . His research has been funded at a level close to ten million dollars by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, Informix Co., Accenture Co., and Hitachi Co. Most recently, he is the Principal Investigator on a $3.1M NSF grant to establish a Ph.D. program in the new discipline of Computational Transportation Science.